The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-21
GBNRl.AL NEW ) ser.s1
Items Of Interest Gathered from ys

Governor Hill of New York has vetoed
the bigh-license bill.
a prarie fire in Dakota destroyed $780,
700 worth of property.
AT Bordentown, N. j., the city election
resulted in favor of the Democrats.
Paul Boynton is going to star with Bar
mum, with his little paddle and rubber suit.
The tailors employed by three firms in
/. Chicago are on the street.
js DIR. McGlynn has started on q lecturing
J tour throughout the country.
For the first time in Paris since 1880
Easter Monday was kept as a close holiday.
Harriet Bcecher Stowe will not go to
Florida as reported.
r-5ohn'C. Emo is known in Montreal as the
king of American boodlers.
Only a very few hairs still sadly linger on
the Prince of Wales bare footed head.
Sam Small has gone to Florida to recruit
his health for the next ovangelizing season.
A large mass meeting of citizens was
held in Savannah to condemn the coercion
bill.
The whale thinks itself big fish. and
one cannot make good dive without com
ing up to blow about it.
A meeting of the Protestant Home Rule
Association was held in Dublin to protest
against the crimes bill.
Five thousand emigrants, natives Of Ire
land, left Liverpool on Saturday and Sun
day last for New York.
Interference with travel on the New
York Central ard Hudson River railroad
by high water continues.
The story Of the Gulnare, with cargo
or dynamite, coasting off the west Of Ire
land is not believed in Cork.
The Anti-Prohibiton Convention to meet
at Dallas on May is the most important
event next to happen i'll Texas.
A fire at st. Augustine, Fla, destroyed
$3.50, 600 worth of property, including sew.
eral of the finest buildings in the city
The Democratic Legislative caucus in
FLORIDA are still balloting for United States
Senator.
The Governor General Of Canada is con
fidcnt of peaceful solution Of the Fishery
question.
Lester Wallack's health has been much
improved by his trip to Florida, but he is
still very lame.
The two Senators from Nevada live in
San Francisco although having ostcnsibc
residences in the State they represent.
4 Two thousand three hundred and ninety.
York.
The Ascension lEpiscopaD Church AT
saltwater Mimi, was struck by lightning
and totally destroyed.
Governor Hill, of New York, has a cat
named Veto, and he has turned it loose
on that high license law.
Clapp & Davis, wholesale jewellers of
Chicago, failed Thursday, having confessed
judgment for $780, 900.
In central Illinois ii has not raincd for
six weeks, and the thermometer has daily
recorded near 90 degrees.
The American Cotton Seed Oil Trust
Company has been cnjoinch from doing
business i'll the State ot Louisiana.
The Maumcc Rolling Mills at Toledo, O.,
We're entirely destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000 Two hundred men are thrown
out of employment.
Henry Clay, the great sire Of the speed
producers, died Wednesday at the MillAc-
ton, New York, stock farm of j. -. Willis
Aged 81 years.
Ebcn S. StrrnS, President Of the Tcmncs-
see Normal College and Chancellor Of the
University OF the South, died in Nashville
Monday morning.
The statement that Lord Dunravcn and
Lord B0lfOur were engaged in drafting Il
SCheme of local sClt-gOycrnmcnt for Ireland
is authortatiVcIy contradictCd.
The stove modcrs employed by Collins
" BurgiC's foundry, Chicago, quit work.
This together with the mrn who struck
Saturday throws 600 out Of work.
David Hoffman, convicted Of wrccking
the Missouri Pacific train at Dunbar Kan,
last january, was sentenced to be hanged
July %. Death resulted from the wreck.
Father McGlynn delivered his lecture,
The cross Of the new crusade" in Gin
cinnati Tuesday night. No Catholic clcrC7-
men were present.
o The Rt Rev. Alfred Ice, Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of the diocese Of Della
ware, died at Wilmington ON Tuesday. lie
was the oldest bishop of his Church.
The Interstate law is said to have in.
creased the cost Of trunspOl tatiOn of wool
between San Francisco and Atlantic ports
from 81 cents to $3 10.
The entire election board Of the eighth
precinct, second district of Jersey City,
was arrested for tampcring with Il ballot
box.
At Pittsburg, Pa, tue Wholesale arrest
of employees Of the Pan Handle route for
robbing freight trains continues to be the
principal topic Of conversation.
INS iIiSli VIZ ivy tOtttu lhC NC" lla-
ven Courier and JouIWdI Publishing Com
paDy have been fined $50 and costs, the
amount aggrcgating $303, which they paid
Buffalo Bill, says the London Nescs,
lis not n wild Indian at all, but is Hon.
W. F. Cody, member of the United States
Parliament"
Photographer Bell, who took the first
photographs Of Mrs. Clcvcland which were
offered for sale, has more orders for them
yet than he can fill in months.
The Memphis and Little Rock road was
sold yesterday and was bid in for the Dow
party, the present controllers of the road,
for $72, $50.
The Comptrollcrof Currency has author
lied the Merchants National Bank of
Rome, Ca, TO begin business with a capital
Of 500,
The tug Corsair, with pleasure party
on board, capsized in the Mississippi river
near New Orleans, Thursday, and Miss |
Barton, of Algicrs, aged 1G, was drowned. !
A public meeting was held at San Anto. |
MO Saturday evening for the purpose of |